How do I get my moniter to work with my new computer?
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If there's no operating system installed, then there's nothing to send your PCI video card a signal to send to your monitor. The only thing you can do with that PC at the moment is either install an OS, or run BIOS. That video card is going to need an operating system and some drivers loaded before it will have a signal - unless your BIOS can set video output to a PCI slot..
- Is your PC posting when you turn it on -- do you here the post beep so you know the system's working at least?
- If so, and you don't see a signal -- where are you connecting your monitor? To the NVidia PCI card output? DVI or VGA? Is there another, onboard VGA/D-Sub port, straight off the motherboard? Pretty likely that the BIOS is set to output the signal to the motherboard's VGA output, and not any PCI slot..so, attach your monitor to that port, then the PC/start BIOS.see if you get a post screen that way.
If you do, just leave it connected there until you get your operating system and drivers installed. Then you can connect it to your PCI card. (Also, check your BIOS documentation to see you can set graphics output to PCI rather than VGA; then BIOS will display out your PCI card connection. But you need to be able to see the BIOS screen to do that!)
Give it a whack!
Depending on what type of monitor most of them are plug and play. what you are going to have to do is to install or have someone install a driver for that monitor and it should work. Here are a couple of web sites for drivers.
http://www.download.com/2001-2014-0.html...
http://www.driversplanet.com/
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